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Al-Qaeda Entered Gaza During Border Breach
[Jerusalem Post] Dozens of terrorists - among them al-Qaeda operatives - infiltrated Gaza after Hamas breached the border with Egypt in January, Head of Military Intelligence Maj.-Gen. Amos Yadlin told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee Tuesday. Yadlin said the breach also "enabled Hamas to bring back those who had left for training in Syria and Iran, including snipers, explosives experts, rocket experts and engineers." Copious amounts of weaponry had also been smuggled in, he added. He also warned that Hamas was planning to capture anther IDF soldier. Regarding the humanitarian situation in Gaza, he said that Gazans were not going hungry. He noted that the Palestinians spent some $150 million in Egypt during the border breach.